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” ‘Manning syndicate backs Fiji casinos’
David Williams
Auckland Property Developer Tim Manning is leading an Asian syndicate backing Fiji’s ambitious $US200 million casino project.
NBR first linked Mr Manning and Singapore based Nico-Franken, to the project in June. Mr Manning confirms the deal this week, which sees his company HGW International take a 50% [...]

Mountain Scene – Article by Philip Chandler
Published August 15, 2013
Up to $4 million will be spent redeveloping Queenstown’s tired looking Coronet Peak Hotel. New owner Tim Manning who developed the local Greenstone Terrace housing complex – says he’ll upgrade the Arthurs Point hotel to four-star standard and sell of its 82 [...]

National Business Review – Article by Duncan Bridgeman
Published August 16, 2013
When Gavin Faull headed to Hong Kong in 1990 he worked for three months without pay to get his foot in the door of Swiss-Bel-hotel International. The Taranaki-born former freezing worker turned hotelier went on to own outright what is now [...]

With only days remaining before submissions close on Auckland’s draft Unitary Plan, we should all take a deep breath and try not to panic. Hasty decisions and fear of change will not help our city’s future.
Discussion must turn to a realistic, evidence-based conversation. We cannot place a glass bubble over the city and guard it [...]

Auckland has almost no chance of reaching a housing accord’s target of 39,000 new houses in the next three years, a property developer says.
The accord, announced on Friday by the government and the Auckland Council, allows for the fast -tracking of certain developments while the city waits for its unitary plan to take effect in [...]

New Zealand property values continued to rise in April to be 4 percent above their peak of late 2007 as Auckland again recorded strong gains, according to state valuer Quotable Value.
National property values increased 1.3 percent in the three months ended April 30 to $431,967, the same pace as in the three months through March. [...]

A property developer has spoken out against Auckland Council’s plan to tax increases in the value of land from rezoning or redevelopment. The council’s proposal for “shared land value uplift,” buried in an addendum to the mammoth Auckland unitary plan, is a tool the council is considering for “enabling affordable neighbourhoods,” the document says.
“A number [...]

Auckland Council is eyeing taking another slice out of rising property values and may seek a change in the law to do so.
The council is calling the proposal “shared land value uplift” but its critics are blasting it as a thinly disguised capital gains tax.
And if Auckland proceeds with the plan, it could open the [...]

Labour and the Greens launch their electricity policy later today, and if the drought had not already broken the deluge of crocodile tears from opposition MPs would have done the job.
Expect to hear much about high power prices and their impact on the less well off when Labour leader David Shearer and Green co-leader Russel [...]